XF 2.0 Increase Online status timeout

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Matthew Yates

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Hi guys, first post so go gentle, I've ported over from VB and am just having a little trouble increasing this option above the limited 60 minutes.

I found online how you do it on older version but not on ZF2?

Any help appreciated.

Matt
 
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If you want to do this without editing any code you can do it via the inspect console.

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How to set 'members online' to more than 60 minutes

By default, XenForo has a pretty tight limit on what they consider online. With this tip, you can help give your smaller forum a bit of a boost with a more generous activity threshold. I've personally chosen 90 minutes which I do not think is too unreasonable. Fortunately for us, XenForo only...
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alfaNova said:
@imno007

PHP: 
class SessionActivity extends Repository
{
    public function getOnlineCounts($onlineCutOff = null)
    {
        if ($onlineCutOff === null)
        {
            $onlineCutOff = \XF::$time - $this->options()->onlineStatusTimeout * 43200;
        }

        return $this->db()->fetchRow("
            SELECT
                SUM(IF(user_id >= 0 AND robot_key = '', 1, 0)) AS total,
                SUM(IF(user_id > 0, 1, 0)) AS members,
                SUM(IF(user_id = 0 AND robot_key = '', 1, 0)) AS members
            FROM xf_session_activity
            WHERE view_date >= ?
        ", $onlineCutOff);
    }

I set as 43200 minute at above.

PHP: 
public function pruneExpiredActivityRecords($cutOff = null)
    {
        if ($cutOff === null)
        {
            $expiration = $this->getDefaultSessionActivityExpiration();
            if (!$expiration)
            {
                return;
            }

            $cutOff = \XF::$time - $expiration;
        }

        $this->db()->delete('xf_session_activity', 'view_date < ?', $cutOff);
    }

How should I update here?
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You'll have to update the value in the final line:


public function pruneExpiredActivityRecords($cutOff = null)
{
if ($cutOff === null)
{
$cutOff = \XF::$time - 86400; (seconds to hours= 24 hours)
 
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imno007 said:
For whatever reason, you still can't do this with XF's default settings. You'll have to edit src/XF/Repository/SessionActivity.php, look for this line and change the value there:

$cutOff = \XF::$time - 3600;

You might also have to put the forum in dev mode and edit the value in your admin - I can't remember offhand if this is really necessary, but just in case. (Or maybe you could just do that and not actually have to edit the sessions file.) You'll get an error every time XF does a file health check, but you can ignore it.
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I changed this line. What do I have to do now? Just activate dev mode? How do I do this exactly?

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,
Chris
 
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Ok, I already figured it out myself and the changes worked.

Add the following line to config.php:

Code: 
$config['development']['enabled'] = true;
Should I remove/delete the line with Dev mode activated after changing the online-status-session?
 
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Silmarillion said:
I changed this line. What do I have to do now? Just activate dev mode? How do I do this exactly?

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,
Chris
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Silmarillion said:
Ok, I already figured it out myself and the changes worked.

Add the following line to config.php:

Code: 
$config['development']['enabled'] = true;
Should I remove/delete the line with Dev mode activated after changing the online-status-session?
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Since I made the changes, I have received the following error message in the ACP:

Code: 
Check completed on 4,939 files. The files listed below have contents different from those originally downloaded.

If you have edited these files yourself, you may ignore this message, otherwise you should investigate further as this may be evidence of corrupted or altered files.
XenForo
src/XF/Repository/SessionActivity.php Unexpected contents

What could that be about?

Best regards,
Chris
 
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Silmarillion said:
~~~ contents different from those originally downloaded.
If you have edited these files yourself, you may ignore this message, otherwise you should investigate further as this may be evidence of corrupted or altered files.
XenForo
src/XF/Repository/SessionActivity.php Unexpected contents
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You changed a core XF file. It's an alert.
 
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Hi Brogan...oops...I mean Paul B! ;)

That means this error message will remain as long as I keep this change...but it won't have any negative impact?!

OK! You Got Me! I am convinced and, above all, can I be reassured? ^^

Best regards,
Chris
 
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Silmarillion said:
I know. That's what this thread is about and many others have done it before me.

Just apparently without getting this error?!

Maybe this has something to do with the latest version?
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If it really annoys you the hash must be regenerated.
SFFNetwork

XF 2.1 Post in thread 'Dismiss or resolve file health check?'

For folks in the future who encounter this issue: I fixed this by generating a sha256 hash of the edited file, and then manually replacing the hash associated with the file in src\addons\XF\hashes.json. There are tools to generate such hashes locally and online; it does appear that the hash needs to be stripped of /r characters, for reference.

@Brogan That XenForo (to my knowledge at least) provides no way to dismiss or allow admins to regenerate hashes for changed files (and thus acknowledge/accept the changes) is very concerning in my opinion - the irony of the...
 
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I guess we have to make the same changes at SessionActivityRepository.php for XF2.3. However, the online members widget is disappearing once we uploaded the amended SessionActivityRepository.php

Is there anything else we should do for 2.3?
 
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alfaNova said:
I guess we have to make the same changes at SessionActivityRepository.php for XF2.3. However, the online members widget is disappearing once we uploaded the amended SessionActivityRepository.php

Is there anything else we should do for 2.3?
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SUM(IF(user_id >= 0 AND robot_key = '', 1, 0)) AS guests

This line should remain the same. If we change as members, then the online members widget will disappear.
 
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alfaNova said:
SUM(IF(user_id >= 0 AND robot_key = '', 1, 0)) AS guests

This line should remain the same. If we change as members, then the online members widget will disappear.
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Yeah, I think I experienced that as well at one point, while experimenting with this and that. I just wanted to get the guests count set to zero, but couldn't figure out at the time how to do it without it messing up the total member count, so ended up just leaving it alone. Better to have a bunch of bots as "guests," I guess. I'll eventually get back around to taking another look at it, but it's not the end of the world.
 
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